In a March 2025 analysis, Google users who encountered an AI summary were less likely to click on links to other websites than users who did not see one.
Reddit took money from Google in exchange for Google to have exclusive rights to trawl reddit with their AI scraping bots. In theory that should mean you get better answers by adding reddit. In actuality though what happens is Google have deliberately made their search engine worse in order to get you to view more ads by staying on the search page longer.
You can’t even get good results by adding reddit to the search anymore.
Now that I think of it… Didn’t reddit add some ai search engine thing to their site?
Reddit took money from Google in exchange for Google to have exclusive rights to trawl reddit with their AI scraping bots. In theory that should mean you get better answers by adding reddit. In actuality though what happens is Google have deliberately made their search engine worse in order to get you to view more ads by staying on the search page longer.